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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) revealed its candidates for 111 additional Lok Sabha seats in its fifth list. Among the prominent names are actor Kangana Ranaut and industrialist Naveen Jindal, who joined the party on Sunday. Arun Govil, renowned for his portrayal of Ram in the TV serial Ramayan, has been fielded from the Meerut Lok Sabha seat.
Other notable names on the list include Union ministers and senior BJP leaders Nityanand Rai fielded from Ujiarpur, Giriraj Singh from Begusarai, Ravi Shankar Prasad from Patna Sahib, Sita Soren from Dumka, Jagadish Shettar from Belgaum, K Sudhakaran from Chikkaballapur, Dharmendra Pradhan from Sambalpur, Pratap Sarangi from Balasore, Sambit Patra from Puri, and Aparijita Sarangi from Bhubaneswar.
Naveen Jindal, the industrialist and former MP, who switched from the Congress to the BJP, was nominated to contest from Kurukshetra. Meanwhile, Kangana Ranaut will contest from Mandi in Himachal Pradesh.
Notably, former union minister Maneka Gandhi has been nominated from Sultanpur while her Varun Gandhi has been replaced by Jatin Prasada in Pilibhit.
Congress released its fifth list of three candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Pratap Singh Khachariyawas has been fielded from Jaipur, in place of Sunil Sharma. Among the other two candidates are Pratibha Suresh Dhanorkar from Chandrapur seat in Maharashtra, and Murari Lal Meena from Rajasthan's Dausa.
Meanwhile, the Samajwadi Party made changes in its candidate line-up. The SP renominated its Lok Sabha MP from Moradabad S T Hasan from the same seat and changed its Bijnor candidate by fielding Deepak Saini, the son of a party MLA.
The Samajwadi Party had earlier named Yashveer Singh as its candidate from Bijnor.
However, on Sunday, it named Deepak Saini as its candidate for the seat. He is the son of Ram Avtar Saini, the SP legislator from the Noorpur assembly segment that comes under the Bijnor parliamentary constituency.
Lok Sabha Polls Live: 'Those who believe in Rahul Gandhi's leadership, also know that their future is dark,' CM Himanta Sarma
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma says, "Voting for Congress party means voting for Rahul Gandhi, voting for BJP means voting for PM Narendra Modi. Those who love PM Modi and believe that India will become Viswaguru will vote for BJP in this election. Those who believe in the leadership of Rahul Gandhi, also know that their future is dark. Even Rahul Gandhi’s future is also dark and his follower's future is more dark. In the last one and half months, you have seen a big erosion of Congress. Many of its leaders, and workers joined the BJP. I believe that there will be no Congress party in Assam by 2026..." (ANI)
Elections 2024 Live: Congress announces Tarh Johny as candidate for Palin–ST Assembly constituency
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge approved the candidature of Tarh Johny, in place of Takam Pario as the party candidate for the upcoming general election to the Legislative Assembly of Arunachal Pradesh from 18 – Palin–ST Assembly constituency.
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